A person has the right to keep their personal information out of public view. All the necessary lists for severe criminal history and backgrounds are in place, i.e. sex offenders. What more information should be available to the general public? Certainly not current and previous addresses and phone numbers, names of related family members, dates of birth and the state your drivers license is issued out of! Have you ever filed a bankruptcy? Do you want friends and neighbors to know you had financial troubles? What about civil law, even criminal law, history? Should that be available to just anybody? All of this information, both negative and positive, can be obtained too easily and used for all the wrong reasons at an unreasonably low price thru "Data Brokers" on the internet.

An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of Americans has infiltrated computers at some of America’s largest consumer and business data aggregators, according to a seven-month investigation by KrebsOnSecurity. The Web site ssndob[dot]ms (hereafter referred to simply as…Read More

Every now and then, many of us get the strange feeling someone’s watching us. Given how easy it is these days for companies to gather information about where we are, what we’re doing, and how we’re doing it, this may well be more than a feeling. Even so, here’s one that really takes the cake: The FTC today took action against Aaron’s for…Read More

Contents: Download Report Download the complete Who Has Your Back? 2013 report as a PDF. Executive Summary When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private…Read More